World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes...
-
Upload
annabel-armstrong -
Category
Documents
-
view
212 -
download
0
Transcript of World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes...
![Page 1: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
World Civ Unit 3
Protestant Reformation
![Page 2: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church
• Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope, but power increased when sanctioned by the Pope
• Unifying force with undisputed control in otherworldly issues and huge sway in worldly issues
• Could only get to heaven the church’s way
![Page 3: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Church Gets Into Trouble
• Sells indulgences– Generates income: maintains power over the masses– Needs to finance patrons: Renaissance Artists– Paying for construction of St. Peter’s Basilica (Church in Vatican
City where the Pope lives)– Reduces time in Purgatory for self and for family members
already there
• Controls huge blocks of land• Doesn’t pay taxes• Temporarily 2 Popes: France claims their own for 7
decades• Church too concerned with wealth and power
![Page 4: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Church Gets Into Trouble cont’d.
• Clergy not well-trained or spiritual– Some appointed for political purposes– Corrupt: spiritually bankrupt
• Early attempts at reform– John Wycliffe (Oxford University) Church should
return to spiritual values• Body burned and followers persecuted
– Jan Hus (Bohemia) urged reform• Burned at the stake• Led to decades long war
– Savonarola (Dominican Friar-Clergy) used violence to fight church
![Page 5: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Martin Luther
• Frustrations: produced 95 Theses – Selling of indulgences– Worldly nature of Rome– Church services not in vernacular– Salvation by grace through faith, not by indulgences
or through the church– Don’t need church as intermediary: go right to Bible
• Diet at Worms: refused to recant, saved by Prince and not killed
![Page 6: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Christianity Splits
• Consequences– Luther’s followers become Lutheran Church– New leaders emerge with other Biblical interpretations
• John Calvin: predestination of the elect• Huguenots in France• Pilgrims in US• Anglicans in England
– King Henry VIII creates the Anglican Church a.k.a. Church of England
• Pope refused his annulment• Allows King to confiscate church property
– Over 100,000 people died in the turmoil
![Page 7: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Philosophical Consequences
• If the strongest institution, the Church, can be questioned, anything is fair game
• Nature of Universe
• Role of government
• Set a foundation for future revolutions
![Page 8: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Protestant Beliefs
• Originally favored simplicity of the institution of the church, but when Protestant church grew too large—it often became too concerned with politics and bureaucracy like the Catholic Church
• Placed less emphasis on rituals and sacraments
• Opposed veneration of Mary and the Saints
• Only Grace through Faith can save sinful man, not Popes, Priests, or rituals
![Page 9: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Protestant Beliefs
• Reading the Bible and interpreting it for self: contributed to higher literacy rates
• More lenient about divorce• Allowed clergy to marry• Rejected transubstantiation: communion
with wine and bread
![Page 10: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Counter Reformation a.k.a. Catholic Reformation
• Gained credibility– Stopped selling indulgences– Trained priests and bishops requiring some spirituality– Jesuits: stricter training—began missionary push into
China, US, etc.• Reconfirmed absolute authority—wouldn’t budge
– Sunday Mass mandatory– Council of Trent 1545,1563 defined rules
• How to get salvation• Latin • Punished heretics
– Succeeds in winning back many converts
![Page 11: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Results: European Conflict
• Southern Europe, France, and South Germany are Catholic
• Northern Europe, England, North Germany, Scandinavia are Lutheran, Anglican, or Calvinist
![Page 12: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Effects of Reformation
• Luther’s insistence on Bible being translated into German/Vernacular spread literacy
• Support of German Princes led to increased nationalism
• Thirty Years War (100,000+ deaths) German Princes—Lutheranism vs. Catholicism– Germany can’t become unified nation
![Page 13: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Effects of Reformation
• Religious wars freed Netherlands (Calvinism) from Spain
• Henry VIII separated England from Catholic Church– Made himself the head of the Anglican
Church– An Act of Supremacy
• Ended Medieval way where the Catholic Church was the sole source of stability in Europe
![Page 14: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Effects of Reformation cont’d.
• Anticlericalism– Dismay over corruption of clergy– Luther said Priests weren’t necessary
• Growth of Middle Class continues—good works and material success a confirmation of salvation
• Created a Middle Class that would eventually help establish democracies
• Increased questioning of political authority
![Page 15: World Civ Unit 3 Protestant Reformation. Before Protestant Reformation: Power of the Church Princes and Emperors didn’t like sharing power with the Pope,](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022072013/56649e4d5503460f94b42bc5/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Effects of Reformation cont’d.
• Strengthened the power of Monarchs/Kings as Papal power decreased
• Encouraged education—Protestants wanted children to be able to read and interpret the Bible
• Improved the status of women WITHIN marriage—writers encouraged love between man and wife
• Created even more Protestant churches